Changeability of individual domains of an aminoacyl-tRNA in polymerization by the ribosome

FEBS Letters

Volumn 584, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 99-105

  Gao, Rong ^a   Forster, Anthony C ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Escherichia coli; Peptide; Protein synthesis; Purified translation; tRNAAla; Unnatural amino acid

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; ALANINE; AMINO ACID; CYTOSINE; PEPTIDE; TRANSFER RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANTICODON; ARTICLE; BIOENGINEERING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION; RIBOSOME; RNA PURIFICATION; RNA TRANSLATION;

ALANINE; ALANINE-TRNA LIGASE; ANTICODON; GENETIC ENGINEERING; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RIBOSOMES; RNA, TRANSFER, ALA;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 71549163430     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2009.11.006     Document Type: Article

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